Novartis

Job Description Summary

The role involves leading the design and development of Global Supply Chain Analytics applications and supporting other domains using supply chain data. It requires hands-on management for development and support in Supply Chain Analytics and Operations. We seek a senior specialist in Supply Chain Data & Analytics to drive key digital initiatives, lead multiple projects, and collaborate with global Business and IT stakeholders to ensure successful solution delivery. Key stakeholders include Product Owners, Architecture teams, Data Scientists, DevOps, Security, Integration Factory, Infrastructure teams, Platform Support teams, and the ISRM team.

Job Description

Role responsibilities:

• Design and manage the development of modular, reusable, and maintainable software solutions for the Supply Chain organization and other strategic initiatives.
• Participate in fit-gap workshops, providing effort estimates and solution proposals.
• Develop and maintain code repositories, responding quickly to bug reports and security vulnerabilities.
• Integrate software development best practices.
• Collaborate extensively with colleagues across Security, Compliance, Engineering, Project Management, and Product Management.
• Drive data enablement and build digital products according to business priorities and technology architects' alignment.
• Contribute to AI/ML initiatives, cloud migration, data quality improvement, business process simplification, and other strategic pillars.
• Ensure solutions adhere to architectural and development standards, best practices, and the Data and Analytics strategy.
• Provide status reports to product owners and IT management.

Role Requirements:

• 8+ years in data & analytics, 3+ years in delivery management, and customer-facing IT roles, 2+ years in Machine Learning and SAP BW on HANA/S/4 HANA
• Experience with collecting and interpreting requirements, building solutions to satisfy business needs.
• Strong understanding of Supply Chain processes and KPIs, including inventory management, demand forecasting, and supply chain optimization.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in Machine Learning, GenAI, Data Lake, Data warehouse, and visualization tools (Power BI, Qlik Sense).
• Strong hands-on exposure in Data and Analytics solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Agile, Disciplined Agile, Waterfall, and tools like Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Bitbucket, SAP Solution Manager.
• Experience with AWS Services, Python, Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, Angular, and SAP Analytics.
• Domain expertise in Pharma and/or Healthcare is a plus.

Languages :

• English.

You’ll receive:

Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement) ; 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 12,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Public Transportation allowance; MultiSport Card, Employee Share Purchase Plan. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: https://www.novartis.cz/

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

This role is based in Prague, CZ or Hyderabad, India. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you.

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Skills Desired

Budget Management, Business Acumen, Performance Management, Planning, Risk Management, Service Delivery Management, Stakeholder Management, Waterfall Model